Can you believe it hasn't even been 4 months now and I've already lost 80 pounds! I pulled on a pair of size 20 pants today for the first time in years! I can't tell you how happy just the sound of the zipper easily sliding up made me this morning. Or the fact that my shirts are so big that I have to constantly pull the shoulders up in order to keep people from getting to see my bra strap all day.
I KNOW that I need to buy new clothes but I keep holding back because clothes are expensive and I still have 100 pounds to lose and I'm losing it so fast that who knows how long it'll be before I would need to go shopping again. At least it's cold enough in the building that I work in to make wearing a jacket necessary pretty much all the time which makes it easier to hide the fact that my clothes are falling off of me! :-P
The only downside to life right now is the continued struggle with eating food. Remember the rule, no carbs and no starchy vegetables...you know, the good foods. And while they've said that we can have the 97% lean ground beef (no other kind of red meats please) I've tried to stay away from it because of how ridiculously often that I used to eat cheeseburgers, hamburgers, meat and potatoes, meatloaf, etc.
I've been wondering recently if the rule includes pork too. I'm going to have to pull out my After Gastric Bypass Manual to check because I honestly can't remember if that's off limits too or not...I think I've been assuming that it is but it never hurts to double check.
The pork question came up over the weekend because I was finally so fed up with being fed up with the foods that I can eat that I decided to buy two Chinese Cookbooks. Why Chinese Cookbooks? Because that's one of my most favorite kinds of food and one that I've been sorely missing since the surgery! I know I can't eat rice right now :'( but there are still so many recipes in the books that I CAN eat even if you just focus on the poultry, fish, and vegetarian recipes...that is, as long as I'm not afraid to brave the wilds of our local Asian food store.
I decided when I sat down and thought about it, before buying the books, that my problem was that the recipes I had been making were just too boring. I needed SAUCES! Sauces to make my chicken more appetising! And since I used to be able to eat Chinese food 2 or 3 or 4 times a week that seemed like the best idea for me!
I never understood why people would think it odd to eat a certain type of food so consistently. All I can say is that usually when people get tired of something it's because they choose the same meal off the menu every time they eat it. I, on the other hand, want to taste EVERYTHING on the menu! One day I would order Shrimp Fried Rice, the next day I would order Lo Mien, the next day I might order Chicken and Mixed Vegetables or any number of other meals available. When I was looking at cookbooks though I resolved to find ones with more authentic Asian cuisine than the Americanised meals found in most Chinese Restaurants. This wasn't as easy as you might think, although I did find a couple that I definitely liked, but if anyone out there sees this and can suggest some great Chinese Cookbooks or just cooking tips then please leave me a comment. :-)
On a completely different note I walked out to the trash cans and found 2 baby raccoons sitting in the trash just staring up at me. Really wish I'd gotten a picture of that! I thought they might be stuck since they were so young so I tipped the trash can over on it's side, expecting them to scamper out and run off but nope they just stayed in the trash can. After work I'll have to check again tonight to see if they ever got out.
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